Saville ...



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Saville, GeorgeRef 580-1208
[18??-1???]
Son of
Jonas Saville.

He married Hannah.

Child: Lewis [1840-1862] who was buried with his Saville grandparents at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 4538]

Saville, GeorgeRef 580-1251
[1803-1872]
Born in Manchester [23rd November 1803].

He was a shoe maker [1851] / a boot maker [1861] / a cordwainer [1871].

Around 1826, he married Hannah [1804-1859].


Hannah was born in Erringden [7th April 1804]
 

Children:

  1. Robert [23rd May 1825-21st January 1866] who was a shoe  maker [1851] who was buried with his parents
  2. George [b 1832] who was a shoe maker [1851], a cordwainer  [1871]
  3. Alfred [11th August 1836-16th February 1877] who was a  shoe maker [1851] & was buried with his parents
  4. Lewis [b 1841] who was a boot maker [1861]
  5. Ruth [b 1845] who was a pupil-teacher [1861]
  6. Harriet [b 1854]

They lived at

  • 8 James's Street, Halifax [1851, 1861]
  • 3 James's Street, Halifax [1871]

Hannah died 4th May 1859.

Living with the widowed George [in 1861] was George's brother Joseph Saville [b 1814] (boot maker).

Living with them [in 1871] was granddaughter Harriet Saville [b 1855] (weaver).

George died 9th January 1872.

Members of the family were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 4300] with Fred, son of Jonas Saville

Saville, JonasRef 580-870
[1781-1845]

He married Sarah [1780-1849].

Children:

  1. Mary [1806-1864] who never married & was buried with her  parents
  2. Harriet [b 1811]
  3. Joseph
  4. George
  5. Hannah [b 1821]
  6. Job [b 1821]

They lived at John Street, Halifax [1841]

Jonas died 5th May 1845 (aged 64).

Sarah died 17th October 1849 (aged 69).

Members of the family were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 4538] with Betty [1787-1853] wife of Samuel Haigh,

This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles

Saville, JonasRef 580-984
[18??-1???]

He married Sarah.

Child: Frederick [1863-1870] who was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 4300] with George Saville

Saville, JonathanRef 580-269
[1759-1842]
Born in Bradford.

He was orphaned and worked as a worsted spinner and miner in Denholme. He was crippled following a childhood accident, and walked with crutches for the rest of his life. He was admitted to the workhouse, where he learned to read.

In 1782, he moved to Halifax to work as a spinner and weaver for John Swaine at Cross Hills. He lived in a Lightcliffe for a time.

In 1785, he married Mary Milnes.

He became a Wesleyan Methodist, having been influenced by Mr Benson and by Robert Emmett. He was a popular preacher.

Around 1800, at his suggestion, he and others became recruiting serjeants, holding prayer meetings and classes in those parts of the district where there were no Methodist chapels, including Blackshawhead, Luddenden and Southowram. He is said to have walked up to 40 miles in one day to preach.

His memoirs and autobiography give details of life and Methodism in the district in the 18th/19th century

This & associated entries use material contributed by Ann Gander

Saville, JonathanRef 580-810
[18??-18??]
Recorded in September 1871, when he had a
brick works at Siddal

Saville, JonathanRef 580-1706
[1820-1881]
He was a gentleman.

On 25th December 1836, he married Mary Ann Wood [1814-1867] in Halifax.

Child: Charlotte [1835-1867]

They lived at Ovenden / Southowram / Ripponden.

Mary Ann died 18th October 1867 (aged 53).

Jonathan died 3rd February 1881 (aged 61).

He was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 2466] with Elizabeth Saville [1818-1883]

Saville, JosephRef 580-1579
[18??-1???]
He was a chemist [1875] / an operative chemist [1878, 1884].

In [Q2] 1873, he married Betsy Jane Brown in Halifax.

Children:

  1. Annie [bapt 2nd May 1875]
  2. Maud [bapt 3rd February 1878]
  3. Ada [bapt 7th September 1884]

They lived at

Saville, JosephRef 580-S822
[1814-1???]
(Possibly) son of
Jonas Saville.

In March 1841, Joseph, George Dawtrey & Alexander Mackay were charged with having feloniously assaulted James Farrar.

All three men were convicted at York [6th March 1841], and sentenced to be transported for fifteen years

This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles

Saville, JosephRef 580-9780
[1828-1872]
Born in Horbury.

He was a stone miner [1848].

On 5th December 1848, he married Mary Ann Bennett [1828-1898] in Dewsbury.


Mary Ann was born in Horbury
 

Children:

  1. Elizabeth [1849-1852] who died aged 2 years & 2 months  
  2. Jane [b 1851]
  3. Sarah [1853-1854] who died aged 1 year & 3 months
  4. Thomas [1854-1917]

Joseph died in 1872.

Mary Ann died in 1898.

The couple & other members of the family () were buried at St Martin's Church, Brighouse [Grave Ref: F49]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell

Saville, LawsonRef 580-1723
[18??-1???]
In 1868, he established a wholesale & retail business dealing in pianos and musical instruments in Pellon Lane, Halifax.

He later moved to Crossley Street, then to 9 Northgate, and in 1891, he moved to India Buildings, Halifax. His son Lawson, established a branch of the business in Bradford.

In 1875, he bought a piano manufacturing business in London

Saville, LawsonRef 580-1724
[18??-19??]
Son of
Lawson Saville.

He was an organist at Square Congregational Church.

He established a branch of the family business in Godwin Street, Bradford

Saville, LawsonRef 580-235
[1842-1903]
Born 26th July 1842.

In [Q3] 1864, he married Eliza Wilkinson [1842-1918] in Halifax.

Children:

  1. Lena Annie [1869-1870]
  2. Edgar John [1874-1882]
  3. Harry [1875-1877]
  4. Louis Charles [1876-1877]

They lived at

  • Clifton Road, Halifax [1903]
  • 40 Cheltenham Place, Halifax [1918]

Lawson died 18th November 1903.

Eliza died 25th July 1918.

Members of the family were buried at Christ Church, Pellon [2/AA16]

Saville, ThomasRef 580-1700
[1876-1956]
Born in Halifax [11th April 1876].

He was a warp tyer (carpet weaving) [1901] / a carpet weaver [1911].

In [Q1] 1899, he married Ada Ann Payne [1878-19??] in Halifax.


Ada Ann was born in Halifax, the daughter of
William Payne
 

Children:

  1. Annie [b 1900]
  2. Lewis John [b 1902]
  3. Edgar [b 1905]
  4. Sophia [b 1909]
  5. Herbert [b 1911]
  6. George [b 1911]

The 1911 Census records that they had had 7 children of whom 6 were still alive at that time.

The family lived at

  • 16 Lorne Street, Halifax [1901]
  • 31 Back Raglan Street, Halifax [1911]
  • 26 Penn Street, Halifax [1939]

Ada Ann died 27th November 1918 (aged 41), and was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 1302] with her parents.

Thomas died in Halifax [Q2 1956 or Q4 1957]


Precise details of his death / burial place are not yet known
 

Saville, WilliamRef 580-150
[1809-1835]
Of Stainland.

He married Mary [1804-1838].

Child: Ebenezer [1834-29th January 1849]

William died 8th July 1835 (aged 26).

Mary died 18th June 1838 (aged 34).

Members of the family were buried at Providence Congregational Church, Stainland [Grave Ref: S1/50]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Carole Edwards Caruso

Saville, WilliamRef 580-73
[1856-1919]
Born in Stainland.

He was a pot maker [1891] / an earthenware pot maker [1911].

In [Q2] 1884, he married Sabina Sykes [1860-1941] in Halifax.

Children:

  1. Joseph [b 1886] who was a bookkeeper (woollen & worsted  manufacturer) [1911]
  2. Lawrence [b 1892] who was a bookkeeper (cloth merchant)   [1911]

They lived at Crossfield Terrace, Stainland [1911].

Living with them [in 1911] was brother-in-law Willie Hirst [b  1858] (cloth finisher).

William died 8th June 1919 (aged 63).

Sabina died 22nd March 1941 (aged 81).

The couple were buried at Providence Congregational Church, Stainland [Grave Ref: S3/475]

Surname

Saville surnameRef 580-1
A variant of the surname Savile

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Unattached BMDs for Saville

Marriages 1895, 1927; Deaths 1835, 1907

Unattached burials at Lister Lane Cemetery: Plot 2466

 



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